Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, mohanthaal. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mohanthaal is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Mohanthaal is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

Rose water and spices like cardamom and saffron give the sweet an enticing flavour and captivating aroma to mohanthal, while an assortment of slivered nuts makes the sweet richer. My mother-in-law makes the most awesome Mohanthaal, a traditional Gujarati mithai. Sukhdi, Magaz, Doodh No Halvo (milk barfi), Mohanthaal are some of the very traditional and popular fudge sweets of Gujarat. The Magaz and Mohanthaal are festive sweets as they are usually made during major festivals like Diwali, Janmashthmi and Raksha Bandhan.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook mohanthaal using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mohanthaal:

1. Prepare Ingredients:-
2. Get For dhrabo 300 gram besan
3. Prepare 2 tablespoon milk
4. Get 2 tablespoon melted ghee
5. Prepare For making Mohanthaal 250 gram ghee 1/2 cup milk powder pistachios and almonds for garnishing Few strands of saffron Poppyseeds (Khus khus) for garnishing
6. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
7. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
8. Prepare Orange food colour
9. Prepare For making sugar syrup Juice of 1/2 lemon 350 gram sugar 250 ml water

Mohanthal or Mohan Tha l is a traditional Gujarati & Rajasthani Dessert. This is a dense Indian style fudge made with gram flour (besan), ghee, dry fruits and sweetened with saffron and cardamom flavored sugar syrup. This mithai is usually cooked during the festive season such as Diwali. Gujarati Mohanthal Recipe is a very traditional festive sweet made from sweetened gram flour and cooked slowly into a dense fudge flavored with saffron and nuts.

Instructions to make Mohanthaal:

1. Method for dhrabo. - In a bowl add the gram flour, melted ghee and milk. Rub the mixture in between your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs. Let it rest for half an hour. - Sieve the dhrabo thru medium hole sieve or you can pulse it in food processor until it resembles bread crumbs.
2. Method for sugar syrup - In a pan add sugar and water and let it simmer to 1 thread consistency. Add yellow food colour to the syrup at this stage. Add lemon juice so it does not crystallised.
3. In a wide wok add ghee and the dhrabo mix and cook on medium heat until it is golden brown and ghee separates from the flour.
4. Remove from heat and add milk powder, cardamom powder, nutmeg powder and mix well. Leave it aside until the mixture is warm. - Pour the hot sugar syrup in the mixture and mix until all syrup is fully incorporated.
5. In a greased plate transfer the Mohanthaal and garnish with pistachios, almonds, saffron and poppyseeds. Let it set for few hours and cut into pieces.

This mithai is usually cooked during the festive season such as Diwali. Gujarati Mohanthal Recipe is a very traditional festive sweet made from sweetened gram flour and cooked slowly into a dense fudge flavored with saffron and nuts. Mohanthal is one of the signature desserts prepared by my mother in law and the entire family swoons over the perfect texture and taste that only she can achieve. Mohanthal (pronounced: moHanTHaal) are squares of mace-laced butter fudge made with chickpea flour. A staple in homes during festivals, these sweet pieces of fudge are studded with crunchy pieces of chickpea flour 'crumble' or 'dhrabo'.

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